Quotes About Authority

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

There is no equality without coercion.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

Dominating others is not equality.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

It's hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

Experience is the highest authority.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.